Aramaic NT Parallel English Translations

 4:1 From whence are there among you wars and strifes? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?

 4:1 Whence is it, that there are among you fightings and broils? Is it not from the lusts, which war in your members?

 4:2 You desire, and have not; you kill and are emulous, yet it cometh not into your hands; you strive and make wars, and nothing have because you do not ask;

 4:2 Ye covet, and possess not; and ye kill, and envy, and effect nothing: and ye fight and make attacks; and ye have not, because ye ask not.

 4:3 you ask and receive not, because you ask wickedly, as that you may cherish your lusts.

 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not; because ye ask wickedly, that ye may pamper your lusts.

 4:4 Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is enmity with Aloha? He, therefore, who willeth to be the friend of this world, hath become the enemy of Aloha.

 4:4 Ye adulterers, know ye not, that the love of the world is hostility towards God? He therefore who chooseth to be a lover of this world, is the enemy of God.

 4:5 Or do you vainly think that the scripture saith, that In emulation desireth the Spirit who dwelleth in us?

 4:5 Or think ye, that the scripture hath vainly said: The spirit dwelling in us lusteth with envy?

 4:6 But more excellent grace hath our Lord given unto us. Wherefore he saith, Aloha humbleth the proud, and to the humble he giveth grace.

 4:6 But our Lord hath given us more grace. Therefore he said: The Lord humbleth the lofty, and giveth grace to the lowly.

 4:7 ¶ BE subject, therefore, unto Aloha; withstand Satana, and he will flee from you;

 4:7 Subject yourselves therefore to God; and stand firm against Satan, and he will flee from you.

 4:8 and draw nigh unto Aloha, and he will be nigh you. Purify your hands, sinners, and sanctify your hearts, divided of soul.

 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners: sanctify your hearts, ye divided in mind.

 4:9 Be humbled and sorrowful, and let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into anxiety.

 4:9 Humble yourselves, and mourn: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into grief.

 4:10 Be humbled before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.

 4:11 Speak not against one another, my brethren; for he who speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if the law thou judgest, thou art not a doer of the law, but the judge of it.

 4:11 Speak not against each other, my brethren; for he that speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if thou judgest the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but its judge.

 4:12 For one is the appointer of the law and the Judge, who can save and destroy. But thou, who art thou, who judgest thy neighbour?

 4:12 There is one Law-giver and Judge, who can make alive, and [can] destroy: but who art thou, that thou judgest thy neighbor?

 4:13 But what shall we say of them who say, To-day or tomorrow we will go to this city, or that, and work there one year, and negotiate, and make gain?

 4:13 But what shall we say of those, who say: To-day or to-morrow we will go to such or such a city, and will abide there a year; and we will traffic, and get gain?

 4:14 and they know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is our life, but a vapour which for a little while is seen, and vanisheth and endeth?

 4:14 And they know not what will be to-morrow: for what is our life, but an exhalation that is seen a little while, and then vanisheth and is gone?

 4:15 For instead they should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will do this or that.

 4:15 Whereas they should say: If the Lord please, and we live, we will do this or that.

 4:16 They glory in their pride. All glorying such as this is from the Evil.

 4:16 They glory in their vaunting. All such glorying is evil.

 4:17 And he who knoweth the good and doeth it not, sin is to him.

 4:17 He that knoweth the good, and doeth it not, to him is sin.